Summary
Sam Kronick is an engineering leader with 15 years of experience building everything from geospatial data visualizations and embedded systems to full-stack enterprise applications, currently leading engineering at Ramp. He’s led teams through fast growth, acquisitions, and early-stage scaling—shaping hiring, onboarding, and architecture at companies like Sofar Ocean, Retool, and Mapbox. Product-focused and pragmatic, Sam chooses tools that maximize user value and has hands-on roots in C++, OpenCV, JS/React, and geospatial tooling like tippecanoe and Mapbox GL. His background spans research at MIT Media Lab to co-founding a design-tech studio, giving him a rare mix of creative technical craft and operational leadership. Based in Oakland, he’s known for mentoring first-time managers and turning complex sensor and geospatial data into actionable products for industries from construction to marine forecasting.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, San Diego
English